Sleigh.



No. 727,472. PATENTED MAY 5, 1903.

' G.SNELL.

SLEIGH.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 6, 1902.

N0 MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

WITNESSE? d'JNVE/VTOR 7/ #7 Attorney UNiTnn STATES Patented May 5, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

SLEIGH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,472, dated May 5,1903. Application filed October 6,1902. $eria1N0.126,165.(Nomoilelmarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in sleighs; and itconsists in the .provision of a sleigh the essential featuresof whichcomprise a knee and supporting members, the object of which is to give asleigh strength enough to be used for heaviest log-.

ging purposes, light andneat, with mobility of respective parts,allowing the sleigh to adapt itself to the unevenness of roads, with noparts to crowd the snow and cause heavy draft and with the runner sosupportedthat it is practically impossible for it to break "in thecenter, with bunk-pins'so protected and relieved of strain that theycannot easily be bent, and with the runner so controlled by the bracethat it cannot get out of true line and constructed of such materials aswill-render a sleigh strong, efficient, and durable and unlikely to bebroken by any sudden jar or strain.

The invention consists, further, in various details of construction andcombinations of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described andthen specifically defined in the appended claims.

The present invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, which, withthe letters of reference marked thereon, formcross-sectional view through the sleigh, and

Fig. 4 is a detail view of one of the braces.

Fig. 5 is a detail View of one of the knees.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings, A A designatethe runners of the sleigh, which are provided with metallic shoes B, andmounted upon each runner is a knee 0, which is made preferably of theshape shown, and D designates binding-bolts, the heads of which areforced through the shoes, runners, and knees, the heads of saidbindingbolts being preferably countersunken in the shoes, anddetaining-nuts D fitted over the threaded ends of therbolts forthepurpose of holding the knee securely upon the runner.

.Tworegistering apertures E" are formed vover the bunk-pin in the mannerillustrated,

with the upper portion of each bunk-pin projecting above the uppersurface of the bolster for i the purpose of receiving the metallicbrace-bar G, which is bowed over the bolster and knee, with. saidcontracted ends projecting through apertures in said brace. The ends ofthe brace-bar G are secured at G to the runner in the manner shown. Itwill be observed that the under surface of the bolster is slightlyconvexed and also the upper surface of the protecting-plate 0', uponwhich it rests,thus allowing the bolster to give slightly and take upsudden jar. Each knee has an elongated aperture M,- through which oneend oi'a brace K passes, which brace is provided with a flange K,adjacent to the end which passes through the slot Min said knee, whichflange is adapted to fit flat against the inner protectingplate N,fastened to the inner faces of the knee and runner in any suitablemanner. It will be observed that said slot M is slightly curved, wherebythe end of. the brace may have a movement therein. A washer L is mountedon the outer end of said brace and is adapted to bear against the outerface of the knee and held thereon by means of a key Q, which is passedthrough an aperture in the ends of the brace. The inner end of the braceis flattened, as shown at R, and bolts 0 are passed through saidflattened portion and through the bolster F, whereby the inner end ofeach brace may be held securely thereto.

From the foregoing it Will be seen that a sleigh made in accordance withmy invention will be strong and durable, making a rigid runner whichwill stand heavy strain and one in which the various parts are securelyand compactly held together, the parts being allowed to give slightly bymeans of the construction and combination of the various parts.

While I have shown and described a construction embodying the featuresof my invention, it will be understood that I may make alterations inthe detail construction of my invention without departing from thespirit of the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a sleigh, the combination of the runners, a protecting-platesecured thereto, kneeblocks mounted thereon and provided with horizontaland slightly-curved slots, a bolster resting upon said blocks, bracesfastened at their inner ends to said bolster, their outer ends passingthrough said slots, integral flanges on said braces adapted to bearagainst said protecting-plate, and the key and washer on the end of eachbrace, whereby the same are held in the slots in the knee-blocks, as setforth.

2. In a sleigh, the combination of the runners, the knee-blocks mountedthereon and having elongated slots thereon, a protectingplate secured tothe upper face of each kneeblock and slightly convexed on its uppersurface, a bolster having a slightly-convexed surface resting upon saidprotecting-plate, braces secured to the under surface of the bolster andhaving ends passing through said slots, a flange on each of said braces,bunk-pins passing through each runner and knee-block and bolster, and abrace-bar secured at its ends to the runner and engaging the upper endsof the bunk-pins, as set forth.

3. In a sleigh, the combination of the runners, shoes mounted thereon,knee blocks mounted thereon with retaining-pins, a protecting-platemounted on each knee-block and having a slightly-convexed upper surface,bunk-pins passing through registering apertures in the knee-blocks andrunners and resting upon the shoe of the runner, a bolster having aslighly-eonvexed under face resting on the protecting-plate, andapertures to receive the bunk-pins and brace strips or bars fastened tothe runners and engaging the upper ends of the bunk-pins, braces carriedby the bolster and passing through slots in the knee-blocks, and meansfor holding the same in place, as set forth.

4. In a sleigh, the combination of the runners, the shoes thereon,knee-blocks bolted to the shoes and runners, a protecting-plate mountedon each knee-block and having a slightly-convexed upper surface,bunk-pins passing through registering apertures in said runners andknee-blocks, the upper end of each bunk-pin being contracted, a bolsterslightly convexed on its under surface and resting upon saidprotecting-plateand through which the bunk-pins pass, the brace-barfastened at its ends to the-runner and having apertures to receive thecontracted ends of the bunk-pins, the curved braces fastened at theirinner ends to the under surface of the bolster and having their outerends passing through slots in said knee-blocks, flanges on said braces,protecting-plates fastened to the inner faces of the knee-blocks andrunners, and a key to hold the outer ends of the braces in said slots,substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE SNELL.

Witnesses:

P. O. GILBERT, S. A. GILBERT.

